Doris Mbata

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the interplay between antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up, different types of stigma and Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) uptake 2 years after the introduction of free ART in a rural ward of Tanzania.

TL;DR: It is suggested that personal motivation and self-efficacy contribute to program retention, and are affected by other individual-level experiences such as perceived health benefits or disease severity, but these determinants are influenced by others' opinions and beliefs in the community, and constrained by programmatic and structural barriers.

TL;DR: As long as an HIV diagnosis continues to have moral connotations, a de-stigmatisation of HIV paralleling that occurring with diseases like cancer is unlikely to occur and Maximizing synergies between HIV treatment and prevention requires an enabling environment for HIV status disclosure, treatment continuation, and safer sexual behaviours.

TL;DR: Trends in voluntary counselling and testing use and whether high‐risk and infected individuals are receiving counselling and learning their HIV status in rural Tanzania are described and assessed.

TL;DR: The routine HMIS is weak and data at district level inaccurately reflects what is available at the source, and the need to design tailored and inter-service strategies for improving data quality is highlighted.